Mississippi Code
Cemetery Law
§ 41-43-40. Perpetual care cemetery to maintain up-to-date record of persons buried in cemetery or entombed in mausoleum or columbarium; contents

Every perpetual care cemetery shall maintain continuously and at all times an up-to-date record of the persons buried in the cemetery or entombed within a mausoleum or columbarium; the date of burial or entombment; a map of the designated lot for burial or entombment as well as a map of lots, burial spaces, mausoleum crypts or columbarium niches that have been sold. The map or plat shall also contain up-to-date designations indicating committed or planned designations of burial lots, crypt, niche or mausoleum spaces for future use. Additionally, the Secretary of State may require those maps to be filed with the Secretary of State in any intervals as the Secretary of State may establish by rule or regulation.

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Mississippi Code

Title 41 - Public Health

Chapter 43 - Cemeteries and Burial Grounds

Cemetery Law

§ 41-43-31. Title

§ 41-43-33. Who is subject to cemetery law

§ 41-43-35. Designation of cemetery organizations as perpetual care cemeteries

§ 41-43-37. Operation as perpetual care cemetery; establishment of irrevocable perpetual care trust fund; registration system for perpetual care cemeteries

§ 41-43-38. Operation as perpetual care cemetery; accounting and reporting requirements; penalties for failure to timely file requisite accountings, records, reports or notices; sale or transfer of perpetual care cemetery; audits; procedure if perpet...

§ 41-43-39. Operation as perpetual care cemetery; procedure by existing organizations

§ 41-43-40. Perpetual care cemetery to maintain up-to-date record of persons buried in cemetery or entombed in mausoleum or columbarium; contents

§ 41-43-41. Nonperpetual care cemetery may become perpetual care cemetery; all cemeteries created after July 1, 2009, to be perpetual care cemeteries unless exempt

§ 41-43-43. Nonperpetual care cemeteries to call attention to such fact in all sales contracts and deeds

§ 41-43-45. Lots sold to public to be free from liens; sale or transfer of lots by purchaser

§ 41-43-47. Cemetery rules and regulations

§ 41-43-51. Rule against perpetuities inapplicable to perpetual care funds

§ 41-43-55. Business records of all perpetual care cemeteries to be available for inspection and examination by Secretary of State; inspection of cemetery sites

§ 41-43-57. Application for release of trust principal for certain purposes under exceptional circumstances